Teacher attitudes and beliefs about multilingualism and migrant parents: Using Appraisal Analysis in a cross-national co

Time: 5:00pm-6:30pm (AGM: 5:00pm-5:15pm; Seminar: 5:15pm-6:30pm)

Venue: AAB817, Academic and Administrative Building, Hong Kong University Road Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon

Teachers’ attitudes and beliefs on multilingualism shape their de facto policies and everyday classroom practices, thus influencing educational outcomes (Fives & Buehl, 2016). To understand how teachers use evaluative language to express their attitudes and beliefs, researchers from eight national contexts (France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the UK) have conducted a study of how teachers talk about multilingualism in schools. As there is a growing body of research showing the benefits of parental involvement for language development, for students’ identity formation, for improving students’ academic performance, and for integration in school and society (Bergnehr, 2015), we have examined how teachers talk about migrant parents in particular. Our focus is on the preschool and primary levels of education, as it is where children enter the…